Jon Rask is a Life Scientist with the Space Biosciences
Division of NASA Ames. His current research focuses on human health
risks associated with space exploration, and the search for life on
Mars. Jon has investigated the toxicity of Lunar Dust, and developed
and tested life science hardware and experiments for Space Shuttle
missions and the International Space Station. He has performed experiment
operations aboard the NASA C9B parabolic aircraft, and been a test
subject in hypergravity experiments aboard the centrifuge facilities
at NASA Ames.

Jon has also been involved in Mars analog research at
the Mars Desert Research Station, in the Mojave and Empty Quarter Deserts,
in the relic glacial terreains and badlands of North Dakota, in the
Arctic on Svalbard, and in Antarctica. Prior to his work at NASA Ames,
Jon was a farmer, rancher, and high school science teacher in North
Dakota.